AS3 Database options?

Iv’e been searching the net on some of the data base options available to flash.
Iv’e found a few mentions of php-mysql
As well as the flash local my shared objects but that really inst a database.

Is javascript/xml an option?

What else is there?

Javascript/XML is an interface, while you are asking for something centralised. If you want to use centralised data, you’ll have to have it stored somewhere. MySQL is a database engine that actually stores data. PHP is used as one of the more common and programmer-friendly way to effectively retrieve data from MySQL server-side and transfer it to client via HTML or XML, depending on your needs. Basically, any database engine and any server-side scripting are suitable for Flash, because they don’t even care of what is asking them for data.

In simpler terms, you use special database languages to work with databases, not AS3. Even if you connect with a Flash application programmed using AS3, you have to send the “queries” in a language like SQL.

Fortunately, SQL is quite simple to learn.